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The Art of Prayer by Igumen of Valamo Khariton
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €15.42This is a collection of texts on prayer, taken from Greek and Russian sources. The spiritual teaching of the Orthodox Church appears here in its classic and traditional form, but expressed in... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 4: Dalliance; Undiscovered Country; Rough Crossing; On the Razzle; The Seagull by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.24This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (Dalliance and Undiscovered Country),... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic... -
Marriage by David Harsent 9780571212514
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his muse and model, who was also his wife. It is a rich pattern for the study of... -
The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan 9780571303137
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork... -
Terrors and Experts by Adam Phillips
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54In the style of his earlier books, "On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored" and "On Flirtation", the author discusses ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and the idea of expertise itself. He... -
Selected Poems of Mick Imlah by Mick Imlah
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three... -
The Arctic by Don Paterson
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele:... -
The Beast in the Red Forest by Sam Eastland
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.10A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.On... -
John Keats by John Keats 9780571328765
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Underwood Lane by John Byrne
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Underwood Lane - the winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giant sheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up from the cobbled street like a row of broken teeth..... -
10,000 Qi Facts: A Brain-Busting Box Set by John Lloyd
RRP: €72.00Booksplease Price: €51.79QI is the smartest comedy show on television. Over the last seven years, the QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways with their astonishing fact books. Now they... -
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the... -
In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll 9780571317578
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.22The end of the war . . .Two hopeful sisters . . . A magical wood . . .'You're telling me there are fairies in this wood?' When Alice's brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant,... -
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Qi: the Book of General Ignorance by Stephen Fry 9780571233687 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €3.00Compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. Published to coincide with the fourth series broadcast in September 2006. If, like Alan... -
![To Reach the Clouds: Man on Wire Film Tie in by Philippe Petit 9780571245857 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/stencil/77ab5620-d3e5-013c-7295-027987e1c044/e/c072a600-b5dd-013f-5484-2e352acbad60/img/ProductDefault.svg "To Reach the Clouds: Man on Wire Film Tie in by Philippe Petit 9780571245857 [USED COPY]")
To Reach the Clouds: Man on Wire Film Tie in by Philippe Petit 9780571245857 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.16One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time,... -
![Unnovations: Tomorrow's Outmoded Artefacts Today by Charlie Brooker 9780571275243 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9709490/10726169/9780571275243__29909.1781368735.jpg?c=1 "Unnovations: Tomorrow's Outmoded Artefacts Today by Charlie Brooker 9780571275243 [USED COPY]")
Unnovations: Tomorrow's Outmoded Artefacts Today by Charlie Brooker 9780571275243 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.00Tomorrow's outmoded artefacts today. From the makers of "TV Go Home" comes a comic spoof of the consumer-product catalogues that arrive like an unwanted rash from newpapers and magazines. Modelled on... -
Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide by Sylvia Plath
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. Tim... -
Five Boys by Mick Jackson 9780571206186
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Something strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the... -
Poems and Shorter Writings by James Joyce 9780571210985
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.62This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably "Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach". It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous... -
Nil Nil by Don Paterson
Booksplease Price: €11.08Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of... -
God'S Gift to Women by Don Paterson 9780571177622
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson's second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not... -
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and... -
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Pierced by Thomas Enger
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter,... -
The Madonna of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77WINNER OF THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Award2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father... -
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Vendetta (Tv Tie-in) by Michael Dibdin 9780571270637 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.06There was something about the Burolo case which was different any other he had ever been involved in. He had known cases which obsessed him professionally, taking over his life until he was unable to... -
Euripides' Alcestis by Ted Hughes
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond translation to an inspired... -
The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories by Sylvia Plath
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.22A timeless collection of stories for younger children.In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and... -
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around him. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes,... -
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.22A new edition of the much-loved classic story of time travel, ghosts and friendship.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it . . .Minty is... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €8.78The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment... -
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Comedians by Trevor Griffiths 9780571049868 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.38'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London. Telling jokes for... -
Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius by Toby Faber 9780330492591
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11'An incredible story of musical instruments, how they're made and what people make of them' - Keith Richards Everyone knows of the legendary quality and unbelievable price tag of a Stradivarius... -
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Hare Soup by Dorothy Molloy 9780571219896 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.66Hare Soup is the startling debut from Dorothy Molloy. Molloy's deftly crafted poems are as unsettling as they are affecting, exploring a world of intimacy from the tensely erotic to something... -
The Philokalia Vol 2 by Philip Sherrard
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.92The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated... -
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a... -
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €16.79This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British... -
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Skylight by David Hare 9780571321131 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €7.75'There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is...